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What do readers say about Red Rising?
futuristic fantasybrutal and bloodya fascinating novelya dystopian novelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
"Red Rising ascends above a crowded dys-topian field."-USA Today
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The first thing you should know about me is I am my father’s son. And when they came for him, I did as he asked. I did not cry. Not when the Society televised the arrest. Not when the Golds tried him....
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What do readers say about Scowler?
child and spousal abusegripping, unsettling, and hauntingdescriptive and chillinggraphic horror novelEqual parts haunting and horrifying, this literary horror novel gives readers insight into the mind of a controlling homicidal man and the son who must stop him.
"Marvin Burke is one of the great monsters of literature, a figure of immense, credible... Read more about Scowler
A tooth was missing and that was never a pleasant thing. It was going on thirty minutes that Ry and Sarah had been after it. When the tiny white kernel had shaken loose from her mouth, Sarah had been ...
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What do readers say about Godblind?
plenty of warlike barbariansgrimdark novel that is brutal and bloodythe red gods of blood and pain have been banisheda bit too dark and grislyThe Mireces worship the bloodthirsty Red Gods. Exiled from Rilpor a thousand years ago, and left to suffer a harsh life in the cold mountains, a new Mireces king now plots an invasion of Rilpor's thriving cities and fertile earth.
Dom Templeson is a ... Read more about Godblind
Rillirin stood at the back with the other slaves, all huddled in a tight knot like a withered fist. Word had been sent days before, summoning all the Mireces’ war chiefs from the villages along the Sk...
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What do readers say about Blood Meridian?
gritty and gruesomemacabre magical realismprofound and intenselyrical and dark proseAn epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."
Based on historical events that took place on the ... Read more about Blood Meridian
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few ...
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What do readers say about His Bloody Project?
fiction masquerading as nonfictiona brutal murderinteresting but not grippingan almost hypnotic novelMan Booker Prize Finalist. LA Times Book Prize Finalist. New York Times Editor's Choice. American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller! Named on "Best Book" lists by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times!
I am writing this at the behest of my advocate, Mr Andrew Sinclair, who since my incarceration here in Inverness has treated me with a degree of civility I in no way deserve. My life has been short an...
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What do readers say about Prince of Thorns?
single character driven plotfirst person narrativeclassic revenge storywell developed plotBOOK ONE IN THE BROKEN EMPIRE TRILOGY
"Prince of Thorns deserves attention as the work of an iconoclast who seems determined to turn that familiar thing, Medievalesque Fantasy Trilogy, entirely on its head."-Locus
When he was nine, he watched as his... Read more about Prince of Thorns
I could see some of the lads exchanging coin on their bets. The Lich Road is as boring as a Sunday sermon. It runs straight and level. So straight it gets so as you’d kill for a left turn or a right t...
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What do readers say about The Blade Itself?
cynical, dark, high fantasyvivid, visceral prosethe characters are well-writtencompelling and wittyThe first novel in the First Law Trilogy and debut fantasy novel from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie.
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead ba... Read more about The Blade Itself
Logen opened his eyes a crack. Light, blurry bright through leaves. This was death? Then why did it hurt so much? His whole left side was throbbing. He tried to take a proper breath, choked, coughed u...
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What do readers say about The Troop?
disgusting and freakyinteresting and intriguingscary and grossold-school stephen king"The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. This is old-school horror at its best." -Stephen King
This "grim microcosm of terror and desperation haunting" (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) follows a scout t... Read more about The Troop
The man was wet from the spray that kicked over the gunwale. The outline of his body was visible under his drenched clothes. He easily could have been mistaken for a scarecrow left carelessly unattend...
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What do readers say about Complicity?
two sets of murdersreally good thrillerhypnotic rather than repellenthe's written betterCOMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act
Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO - he commits brutal ... Read more about Complicity
You hear the car after an hour and a half. During that time you’ve been here in the darkness, sitting on the small telephone seat near the front door, waiting. You only moved once, after half an hour,...
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What do readers say about Best Served Cold?
stand alone novelthe futility of revengea story of revengecharacter driven styleSpringtime in Styria. And that means war.
There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, h... Read more about Best Served Cold
The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, marked the scraps of cloud with stolen gold. Underneath it the road twisted up the mountainside towards...
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